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THREE Sunshine Coast men were ordered to stand trial late yesterday for the stabbing murder of Dean Tennant in the Currimundi Marketplace earlier this year.

A Maroochydore magistrate found there was enough evidence for all three Lyall Tau Maguire, 31, and Ricky Wayne McDougall and Shane Garry Collas, both 23 to face trial in the Supreme Court for the murder of Mr Tennant, 35, on the night of April 13.

The ruling ended a 10-day committal hearing which had opened in Maroochydore Magistrates Court in September.

Earlier, a teenage friend of the accused told the hearing that one of the trio was in possession of a knife shortly after an altercation in the carpark of the shopping centre.

The boy, who celebrated his 15th birthday yesterday and whose identity was the subject of a suppression order, told the court he witnessed Mr Maguire punch Mr Tennant once in the chest.

The court heard someone yelled he stabbed me," before Mr Maguire returned to his car with a 20-centimetre knife in his hand.

When Mr McDougall also returned to the car, and commented someone stabbed him", the witness testified Mr Maguire replied: Yeah, it went all the way.